'I can recommend this book to those chemists who would like to catch up on what scholarship has transpired among historians and philosophers of science these past 20-30 years.' Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 28:2 (2003)

• 1. Chemical Atomism and the Evolution of Chemical Theory in the Nineteenth Century.- 2. The Creative Power of Paper Tools in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry.- 3. An Early History of Alexander Crum Brown’s Graphical Formulas.- 4. Conventionalities in Formula Writing.- 5. Paper Tools and Fictional Worlds: Prediction, Synthesis and Auxiliary Hypotheses in Chemistry.- 6. Aspects of Paper Tools in the Industrial-Academic Context: Constitutions and Structures of Aniline Dyes, 1860–1880.- 7. Molecular Models and the Articulation of Structural Constraints in Chemistry.- 8. Paper Tools and Molecular Architecture in the Chemistry of Linus Pauling.- 9. Graphic Representations of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements.- 10. The Periodic Table: The Ultimate Paper Tool in Chemistry.- 11. A Principle Written in Diagrams: The Aufbau Principle for Molecules and Its Visual Representations, 1927–1932.- 12. Fedoroff’s Translation of McClintock: The Uses of Chemistry in the Reorganization of Genetics.- 13. Mathematics, Representation and Molecular Structure.- 14. Affinity, Additivity and the Reification of the Bond.

'I can recommend this book to those chemists who would like to catch up on what scholarship has transpired among historians and philosophers of science these past 20-30 years.' Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 28:2 (2003)

• 1. Chemical Atomism and the Evolution of Chemical Theory in the Nineteenth Century.- 2. The Creative Power of Paper Tools in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry.- 3. An Early History of Alexander Crum Brown’s Graphical Formulas.- 4. Conventionalities in Formula Writing.- 5. Paper Tools and Fictional Worlds: Prediction, Synthesis and Auxiliary Hypotheses in Chemistry.- 6. Aspects of Paper Tools in the Industrial-Academic Context: Constitutions and Structures of Aniline Dyes, 1860–1880.- 7. Molecular Models and the Articulation of Structural Constraints in Chemistry.- 8. Paper Tools and Molecular Architecture in the Chemistry of Linus Pauling.- 9. Graphic Representations of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements.- 10. The Periodic Table: The Ultimate Paper Tool in Chemistry.- 11. A Principle Written in Diagrams: The Aufbau Principle for Molecules and Its Visual Representations, 1927–1932.- 12. Fedoroff’s Translation of McClintock: The Uses of Chemistry in the Reorganization of Genetics.- 13. Mathematics, Representation and Molecular Structure.- 14. Affinity, Additivity and the Reification of the Bond.